When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ —Mister Rogers
#Quotations
A lion never roars after a kill. —Dean Smith
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. —John Steinbeck
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. —Martin Luther King Jr.
If you’re following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you’ve ever felt. —Phil Knight
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. —W. E. B. Du Bois
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame. —W. E. B. Du Bois
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing; it refuses nothing; it receives, but does not keep. —Zhuang Zhou
73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror, 37, is the 12th, and its mirror, 21, is the product of multiplying, hang on to your hats, 7 and 3. —Sheldon Cooper
The world is a mirror of the soul and the soul a mirror of the world. —Alan Watts
Religion is above all a system of ideas by which men imagine the society of which they are members and the obscure yet intimate relations they have with it. —Emile Durkheim
“All I have to say is, if kissing invites germs, a large proportion of us are gratifyingly germ-proof!” — Josephine Daskam Bacon, The Memoirs of a Baby
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. —Thomas Sowell
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. ―Antonio Gramsci
Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to perdition; the other half that it is fast becoming perfect. Both cannot be right. —Henry Adams
“People are icebergs, with just a bit you can see and loads you can't.” — David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
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“So you banned all those books, Sadie said, and the teacher had blinked twice at her over her glasses. Oh no, sweetie, she said. People think that sometimes, but no. No one bans anything. Haven’t you ever heard of the Bill of Rights? The class giggled, and Sadie flushed. Every school makes its own independent judgments, the teacher said.”
― Celeste Ng, "Our Missing Hearts"
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"La froide exactitude n’est pas l’art." (Cold exactitude is not art.) —Eugène Delacroix
"L’exactitude n’est pas la vérité." (Exactitude is not truth.) —Henri Matisse
Ok, Larry. I’ll give you this one.
“There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.”— Lawrence Welk
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. #quotations
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